Drive Image Recovery - The Recovery Manager enables users to restore a drive image from a direct or network attached drive.Backup drive images will be stored as a file, which can be copied to any direct attached drive, network attached storage drive or optical media (CD/DVD). Drive Image Backup - The long-term usage of the Drive Kit software will be to provide full-drive image backups of a source drive at any time.Drive Deployment - Enables users to prepare a WD drive so that selected folders or partitions can be excluded from the destination image.Drive Migration - Erase the source drive after the new WD drive has been imaged.Drive Cloning - Copies the source drive to a new WD drive, leaving all data on the source drive.Acronis True Image WD Edition now supports WD Advanced Format Drives and ensures that all partitions are optimally aligned.Īcronis True Image Western Digital Edition Software is based on the award-winning Acronis True Image Home backup, restore and disaster recovery program. Everything will be present and operate exactly as it did on your old hard drive.

I have installed their paid edition on another computer (way back before WD offered the free edition) and I don’t recall this happening with that version, albeit it was 2008 or 2009.Acronis True Image WD Edition Software helps you to completely clone your current system drive onto your new WD hard drive.Ĭloning makes an exact copy of your old system drive on your new WD hard drive, including the operating system, applications, data, preferences, and email settings.

If you want reasonable speed, give us some money’? Is this just Acronis’ way of saying ‘look, if you want the free WD edition, you must pay in time. I guess my question is, how long does it take? The fact that the initial dialogue took so long makes me reluctant to just abort (and create a coaster out of the disk). It shows up okay in Explorer and I’ve not had any issues with other CDs in this batch. I’m fairly certain the CD I have in the drive is good. The ‘processing…’ window has been up for 4 hours now with the green progress bar just a smidge away from the end. Then it finally comes back and I can get it to start the disk creation process. When I try to create a bootable rescue media, the dialogue hangs for about 20 minutes. I downloaded and installed Acronis True Image WD Edition from the WDC website (here: ATI-WD Edition ).

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